Posted by Anirudh Dewani, Director – Android Developer Relations
We simply dropped our summer time episode of #TheAndroidShow, on YouTube and on developer.android.com, the place we unpacked the entire goodies popping out of this month’s Made by Google occasion and what you as Android builders have to know. With two new Put on OS 5 watches, we present you how one can get constructing for the wrist. And with the newest foldable from Google, the Pixel 9 Professional Fold, we present how one can leverage out of the field APIs and multi-window experiences to make your apps adaptive for this new type issue.
Constructing for Pixel 9 Professional Fold with Adaptive UIs
With foldables just like the Pixel 9 Professional Fold, customers have choices for how one can have interaction and multitask based mostly on the show they’re utilizing and the folded state of their machine. Constructing apps that adapt based mostly on display screen dimension and machine postures means that you can scale your UI for cell, foldables, tablets and past. You may learn extra about how one can get began constructing for units just like the Pixel 9 Professional Fold, or be taught extra about constructing for big screens.
Getting ready for Pixel Watch 3: Put on OS 5 and Bigger Shows
With Pixel Watch 3 ringing within the steady launch of Put on OS 5, there’s by no means been a greater time to arrange your app for the conduct adjustments from Put on OS 5 and bigger display screen sizes from Pixel. We coated how one can get began constructing for wearables like Pixel Watch 3, and you’ll be taught extra about constructing for Put on OS 3.
Gemini Nano, with multi-modality
We additionally took you behind the scenes with Gemini Nano with multimodality, Google’s newest mannequin for on-device AI. Gemini Nano, the smallest model of the Gemini mannequin household, may be executed on-device on succesful Android units together with the newest Pixel 9. We caught up with the staff to listen to extra about how the Pixel Recorder staff used Gemini Nano to summarize customers’ transcripts of audio recordings, with knowledge remaining on-device.
And a few voices from Android devs such as you!
Throughout the present, we heard from some superb builders constructing glorious apps, throughout units. Like Rex Jin and Bismark Ito, Android Builders at Meta: they informed us how the staff at Instagram was ready so as to add Extremely HDR in lower than three months, dramatically enhancing the consumer expertise. Later, SAP informed us how inside 5 minutes, they built-in NavigationSuiteScaffold, swiftly adapting their navigation UI to totally different window sizes. And AllTrails informed us they’re seeing 60% greater month-to-month retention from Put on OS customers… fairly spectacular!
Have an concept for our subsequent episode of #TheAndroidShow? It’s your dialog with the broader group, and #TheAndroidShow is your dialog with the Android developer group, this time hosted by Huyen Tue Dao and John Zoeller. You will hear the newest from the builders and engineers who construct Android. You may watch the complete present on YouTube Remark begin and on developer.android.com/occasions/present!
